Terminology for Maternal-Child Health Nursing Exam Questions and Answers
Prenatal; during pregnancy intrapartum - ANSWER-During labour and delivery postpartum - ANSWER-After the delivery of the infant and placenta Gravidity - ANSWER-number of pregnancies parity - ANSWER-The number of pregnancies a woman has completed to the stage of fetal viability, but not the number of fetuses born fetal viability - ANSWER-Capacity of the fetus to live outside the uterus (usually 22-24 weeks) The legal age of viability of 20 weeks or 500 g in Canada nullipara - ANSWER-A woman who has not completed a pregnancy with a fetus/fetuses who reached the stage of viability primipara - ANSWER-A woman who has completed one pregnancy to the stage of viability multipara - ANSWER-A woman who has carried two or more pregnancies to viability (whether they ended in live infants or stillbirths)
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